Facebook may be subject to an extensive European Union survey of its advertising platform. There are ongoing concerns about the way the social network protects its data and so an investigation has now been requested by the British privacy watchdog. Yesterday the ICO submitted a 113-page report to th... Read more
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Microsoft claims not to use consumer data for its own profit. The software group claims that it sees data privacy as a human right and stresses that the misuse of user data will eventually harm its products and services, according to CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella spoke to the London Times about this. T... Read more
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Oracles Internet Intelligence division today confirmed the findings of an academic research paper that accuses China of taking over the crucial backbone of the Internet from Western hands. China Telecom would hijack Internet traffic from the west and redirect it through its own infrastructure. The r... Read more
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Last year, HPE successfully built a supercomputer for the International Space Station (ISS). Today, the company, together with the American space agency NASA, announced that the computer is available to developers and scientists on Earth who want to carry out experiments. HPE considers it important,... Read more
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Microsoft has fixed a bug in the currently delayed Windows 10 October 2018 Update. This was in earlier versions of the operating system and gave apps potentially undesirable access to user data. This is a bug in the Universal Windows Platform. The bug in the Windows broadFileSystemAccess API could g... Read more
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The Portuguese privacy watchdog fined a Portuguese hospital €400,000 for two violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The hospital is still appealing against the decision and could even take legal action. That's what the Portuguese publication Publico reports today. The Por... Read more
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The UK privacy watchdog has fined Facebook £500,000 for how it has dealt with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This leaves a decision from July, which was challenged by the social network. The fine is more symbolic than anything else. After all, half a million dollars does not impress the quarter... Read more
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Google has introduced a number of new features to make it easier for users to manage their data. Your Data in Search, as it is called, allows users to view and delete their recent search activity. In addition, they have easy access to the most relevant privacy settings within their Google Account. I... Read more
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Bits of Freedom has unveiled a new service that allows everyone to request their details from companies, institutions and the government. According to the European Privacy Act, GDPR is obliged to give access to this data. The service, My Data Done Right, can be used as of today. The aim of the civil... Read more
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Mozilla is increasingly turning Firefox into a browser that puts user privacy first. In the next version, Firefox 63, a feature has been built in that prevents cookies from tracking users' behavior on multiple websites. Enhanced Tracking Protecion is now available to everyone. Enhanced Tracking Prot... Read more
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